ARREST AS SPY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 4, 28 September 1937, Page 6

ARREST AS SPY

Deported German Says, "I Shall Return" Otto Karl Ludwig is back in Geraiany, minus the documputs which led to his detention in Brixton Prison qnder ' the Official ' JScerets - Act. ■ The charge was subsequently- Withdrawn. ; 1 travelled "with* him in the- steamer from Harwich (writes a Daily- Sketch rcporter). Uhtil he reached 'the port he was under a close guard'of Special Branch men. On their advice he kept the door of his cabiri locked' until the steamer was well out in the No'rth Sea. He was shaying several days'l'growth from his chin when eventually he , admitted . ihe. / , His nervousngss * lasted thjoughout the sea journey, but. once on the- other side he- became easier- in mind. He told ;me he was' not angry' about his .arrest. v, - • • - He would, he added, one day return to England. , . , ".. . - "It Has been a terrible mistake," he said. - " But 'I . do not blame the Euglisk War Office. - England dpes right to exercise vigilance over foreijgners. ' ' All the" same, I am no spy. Hitler doesn't taka the siightest intferest. in me, most likely doesn 't yet know'of my . "existence. • ' : ' • ' "I am just ai'nierchant, a dealer in machines. Because 1 have to travel 1 have.acquired a knowledge of five languagls, but, unf ortunately, English is not ambhg them. - ... "That made it all. the. more. difficult -to .explain .my ; position. . V . , "Your War Office has kept the documents which -started -the trouble, but 1 am .n'ot" worried. - - 4 "I : would like ' to say • that .1 was . treated very well in Brixton prison, where I ,was allowed • to have my own food." ' , ' V ^ , . ,"I should call Brixton a very good prison,- so I ain going back; to Germany f without a grumble. ' ' - • ■ "I shall tell. my friends- at home that it 'has been. a bfunder, but that English .justice; leayes no room for copiplaint. It-.is real jus'tice." . - '